We’re thrilled to introduce you to a new Investee: Richmond Family Place! Richmond Family Place’s interactive programs for families focus on mutual aid and peer support to equip families with the tools and resources they need to thrive.
We’re back with a special SVP Vancouver version of the holiday classic! Three years in a row makes it a tradition!
We do this to celebrate the season, and also to acknowledge all the incredible work we’ve achieved in 2023 to help vulnerable children and youth in B.C. thrive, thanks to your support.
Since 2001 SVP has invested in high-impact nonprofit organizations that are working to improve the lives of B.C.’s children and youth. Our ultimate goal: Be an exceptional and catalytic funder that enables high-impact nonprofits to flourish and grow. All in the service of helping more kids and youth in B.C. thrive. As we look to the future, we want to also share successes of our past, starting with Take a Hike.
SVP Vancouver Alumni organization Fresh Roots received a Flex Fund grant to work with equity, diversity, and inclusion consultant Eman Salem to continue to explore how they can foster an anti-oppression and anti-racist lens throughout their work.
Giving Tuesday is coming up next week, on November 28th. Our Alumni and Investee organizations have put together engaging Giving Tuesday and Year End campaigns that aim to raise funds – and awareness – so they can continue doing their incredible work, helping children and youth in B.C. thrive.
On October 16th, a group of SVP Partners and staff gathered for an “Fostering Belonging Through DEI” session with Eman Salem from IronSelf Consulting. It is part of SVP’s strategic plan to further embody equity in our work as a foundation, recognizing that without actively working to change the systems that hold societal inequities and inequalities in place, we aren’t fully enacting or working toward our vision of helping children and youth thrive. We want to ensure we are serving our community in the safest, most inclusive way possible.
Since 2001, SVP has done things differently. We’ve always done more than throw money at a problem. Instead, we walk alongside our nonprofit Investee and Alumni organizations, yes, offering multi-year financial support, but also providing so much more than a grant: responsive capacity-building support, access to volunteer expertise, community, and thought partnership to help nonprofits in the start-up phase stabilize and grow.
At SVP Vancouver, our aim is to provide more than funding – to walk alongside Investee and Alumni organizations to help them get to where they want to be, respectfully and equitably. Some of our recent work with two new Investee organizations, New Westminster Family Place and West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation, illustrate our working relationship – and show why accompaniment leads to more long-term impact for the organizations we work with and their communities.
Discovery Team members: Nicole Geyer, Helen Stortini, Sohee Kim. Our SVP Early Years Innovation Fund is fuelling ground-breaking ideas and stepping in to provide critical and unique support that fills a gap in the Early Years funding horizon. Our proposed work with New Westminster Family Place (NWFP) is just another example of this in action.
In 2022, we rolled out a brand-new granting stream: the Capacity-Building Flex Fund. These smaller grants are made available to our Investee and Alumni community to support capacity-building projects that are crucial to the improvement of their service delivery but that are consistently not funded by other sources.
